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  • Sample Bedroom Community’s Latest Signing At Sruli Recht’s Store Launch

    Award-winning designer Sruli Recht has a thing for making controversial-slash-gorgeous products (for instance: wallets and shoes made out of tanned minke-whale penii). He is a self-described cross-disciplinary artist, “caught somewhere between product design, weapons manufacturing, corroded tailoring and shoe making.” Sruli has…

  • Dreamland Regained – The Valgeir Sigurðsson Interview

    The latest album from Bedroom Community founder VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON sees the composer beginning to stretch his music and ambitions, while marking the latest in a furtive year of creativity for the label as a whole. By Bob Cluness   The Reykjavík suburb…

  • Sound the siren

    Once upon a time, the firm calm of sonowolf gaze. Úlfur may be the next beast to explode from birch undergrowth with a gnash of belief. Foregrounding fairy-tale twinkle and crusade, the expansive breath of Úlfur’s instrumentation — from processed guitar to plaintive clarinet…

  • A CLOSER LOOK AT BEDROOM COMMUNITY

    ‘Everything, Everywhere, All The Time’  Along with the rest of tasteful folks everywhere, us at Grapevine have been closely following the Bedroom Community collective (which comprises, at its core, messrs. Valgeir Sigurðsson, Ben Frost and Nico Muhly—all super internationally acclaimed for all…

  • Nico And Jónsi GO ALL IN!

    Nico And Jónsi GO ALL IN!

    It’s nearing midnight on Saturday, March 13, 2010. After a strenuous Icelandic Music Awards ceremony, the Grapevine feels like going home, watching Back To The Future II and kicking back with some popcorn. Which would be the smart thing to do. However,…